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- Dictionaryhorripilate/hɒˈrɪpɪleɪt/
verb
- 1. undergo horripilation, in which the hairs stand erect from the body due to cold, fear, or excitement: literary "my skin horripilated and goose pimples ran up my spine"
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Horripilate is a technical term meaning to make the hair stand up—to trigger goose bumps. It can also mean to experience this—to get goose bumps. This can happen due to cold, fear, or excitement. The process or an instance of this is called horripilation (or piloerection ). Horripilation doesn’t only happen in humans.
have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps. “I horripilate when I see violence on television”. see more. see less. type of: experience, get, have, receive. go through (mental or physical states or experiences) verb. cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps.
verb. to cause or undergo horripilation. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. horripilate in American English. (hɔˈrɪpəˌleɪt ) verb transitive Word forms: horˈripiˌlated or horˈripiˌlating. 1. to produce horripilation. verb intransitive. 2. to experience horripilation; bristle.
a bristling of the hair of the head or body (as from fright or excitement) : goose bumps… See the full definition
hor·rip·i·la·tion. (hô-rĭp′ə-lā′shən, hŏ-) n. The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps. [Late Latin horripilātiō, horripilātiōn-, from Latin horripilātus, past participle of horripilāre, to bristle with hairs : horrēre, to tremble + pilāre, to grow hair (from pilus, hair ).] hor·rip′i·late′ v.
Jun 2, 2024 · horripilate (third-person singular simple present horripilates, present participle horripilating, simple past and past participle horripilated) (transitive, intransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples. [from 1620s]
Horripilation definition: a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps. . See examples of HORRIPILATION used in a sentence.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb horripilate. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
horripilation in American English. (hɔˌrɪpəˈleɪʃən ) noun. the erection of hair of the head or body, as from fear, disease, or cold; goose flesh. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Word origin. LL horripilatio: see horripilate.
The earliest known use of the noun horripilation is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for horripilation is from 1656, in the writing of Thomas Blount, antiquary and lexicographer. horripilation is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin horripilātio.
